The police later determined that the killer had strangled her and taken the body to the basement of a nearby building, where it was dismembered. 7, 1946, a 6-year-old girl named Suzanne Degnan was discovered missing from her bedroom at her North Side home. Then, about two weeks after the Brown murder, on Jan. The reports of a “lipstick killer” terrified Chicago as the press took note of other unsolved murders of women. At the scene of the second murder, that of Miss Brown, someone had used lipstick to scrawl on a wall: “For heaven’s sake catch me before I kill more. Heirens’ notoriety stemmed from the separate killings of two women, Josephine Ross and Frances Brown, in 1945. He was pronounced dead at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, where an autopsy was to be performed, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

William Heirens, the notorious “Lipstick Killer” who in 1946 confessed to three horrific murders in Chicago and then spent the rest of his life - more than 65 years - in prison despite questions about his guilt, was found dead on Monday in the Dixon Correctional Center in Dixon, Ill.

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